On 03/09/07, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
On Monday 03 September 2007 13:50, Liam Proven wrote:
On 01/09/07, Chris M <chrism3667 at
yahoo.com> wrote:
I know nothing about AIX or it's associated
hardware
(oh ok I know it's made by IBM). I know little more
about HP-UX. All I know is I want a box/boxes I can
run this stuph on. This is a continual plea and the
cry of my heart :(. I know there's some of this stuph
out there for me. Question is how do I get it. Thus I
turn to y'all. Please help. Please...
I've been offered 2 or 3 free RS/6000 machines over the years. Turned
'em down - not exotic or inherently interesting enough to pique my
collecting urge.
POWER is an inherently interesting processor architecture (especially
the 6-chip versions), and the machines are built like a tank - even the
models with a plastic case are practically bulletproof. POWER is
amazingly zippy for the relative clock speed, especially for floating
point ops...
I have a number of PowerMacs for that side of things. :?)
And, AIX, well, if you've ever tried to admin an
AIX box, I don't see
how you could say it wasn't "unique" especially among UNIX variants.
Only done a tiny bit of /very/ basic stuff, but mostly, I only keep
machines around that I have some *use* for, unless they're something
from my youth that I lusted over, like the
Amiga/ST/QL/Archimedes.
RS/6000s were impressive but I never really wanted one and I
have no
conceivable use for one now!
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